His sister did

We think Shanti had a power because she was described as being "special" and because she had the same illness that Molly has. But we're not sure and not all siblings will have powers. Plus for them to suddenly give Mohinder powers would ruin his character.

He has the power of tea. And torturing people. And being hot.

Please, Mohinder TOTALLY doesn't have a power. If he did, that would be lame...

I second that! Mohinder is the catalyst... that's his point. No powers please..

Well, you could say he has the un-power of gullibility (being gullible) (Just kidding!)

Yeah, Mo-Mo has that "Don't talk to strangers" thing licked..

Mohinder's better not having any powers. Makes him more interesting that way. See how a 'normal' person reacts to all these abilities.

On another board, someone jokingly floated the idea of Mohinder having the ability to either enhance or set off other people's powers (a la Synergy). Which, if he had to have a power, I'd totally make it this one, just because it would be kind of hilariously ironic in light of a) his initial disbelief in superpowers, b) his father kicking him out of his research, c) he could have provided so many more braaaaaainz for Sylar.

Of course, as far as the show goes, I'm fine with him not having any. Mohinder's at his coolest when he's using his non-superpowered brain to best other special people.

Mohinder with powers?
Never gonna happen

nope, I don't think he has a power,if he had he wouldn't act skeptic when peter first told about his ability(I think)

Well, to be fair he'd still react that way if he hasn't discovered his powers yet. Nathan discovered his when he's around 40, so I guess they can kick in later on.

true, but i still doubt it

He has the ultimate power - intellegence.


Which I obviously don't have since I spelled 'intelligence' wrong !

No he hasn't got a power. But helping others is a special too

Marzipan: I like you idea. If he ever has a power, I hope it's that one.

Mohinder has the power to find bleeding people and sit by their side, looking like he's being useful.

Don't believe me? Watch the season finale again.

It'd completely ruin it if he had powers apart from Marzipan's idea, but I'd still prefer him not to have a power.

Mohinder absolutely has a power. Every time he's onscreen, I turn speechless and lose all volition to move from my chair until the next scene begins.

They didn't show him with a power five years in the future and also Tim Kring said Noah, Mohinder and Ando will never have powers.

Yeah, the power to completely mis-understand science as it is currently practiced and understood in the known world, and to make others believe that his background in "genetics research" (takes a drink) makes him qualified to act in a medical capacity any more than any other cabdriver. Oops--did I say that out loud?

Oooh, I'd love to see the source for this. Not because I doubt you, I just want to read the surrounding information, too.

Of all the powers Momo could potentially have, in my own personal opinion, the repetition of Intuitive Aptitude has struck me as a plausible possibility. There seems to be evidence that powers can repeat themselves (Claude isn't surprised by Peter's Empathy "One of those", Chandra's book shows evidence of Regenerators, Nuclear Emitters, and people capable of Human Flight before the awakening of Claire, Ted, and Nathan), and Mohinder seems inhumanly capable of figuring things out.

He's extremely young, but follows his father's research to the point of surpassing Chandra's understanding of his own theories; he readily branches out beyond his Ph.D. into M.D. areas; he seems to get the powers of others very similarly to the way Sylar does; and one of the most telling instances of all - the spinal tap.

Lumbar Punctures aren't usually performed that high on the spinal column because it's difficult to reach fluid there, and there's a high risk of paralysis. On top of that, Mohinder could have gotten DNA from anywhere on Sylar - blood, hair, a swab from his cheek like he used and analyzed from the original Zane Taylor, but he went specifically for the spinal fluid at the base of Sylar's skull. It might not seem important, but the base of the skull is precisely where Claire and Peter's brain had to be penetrated to disable their renerative abilities, and we know that the control for the powers is seated in the brain because Sylar figured it out and told us as much. No one told Mohinder that's where he had to look though, he just seemed to know.

Now I fully admit that this is totally speculation born of reading far too deeply into things, but I think it's fun speculation none the less. I like the idea of Sylar and Mohinder sharing a similar, if not exact, original ability. Not in a "Mohinder becoming a brain-eating, power-stealing serial killer like Sylar" kind of way, but in the squaring-off of that sort of intellect.

Anywho, just my two cents.

I'm not 100% on board with Mohinder having intuitive aptitude, but I do LOVE the theory you've laid out, Mohindriel. It would make Mohinder and Sylar even more perfect adversaries than they already are. Sylar is the cobra - Mohinder is the mongoose.

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LOL. Although given how many immigrant cab drivers used to have "real" jobs back in their home countries, that may actually mean Mohinder is capable of performing several kinds of complex surgeries..

I like Mohinder more as a smart guy without powers. I think it's cool that as a normal person he was able to outsmart (temporarily) and knock out Sylar, and in the future he defeated the Haitian. It's pretty cool that of all the characters, the normal person was able to defeat some of the more powerful characters.

Though I would like more scientifically correct things from Mohinder in the future.

i'll tell ya what i reckon he needed a fair bit of power to chuck a cupboard fast enough to knock sylar out ...what do you think?>

Well, his blood being the only cure for the virus is sort of a power in a different sense.
Besides, he's hot enough to not need one.

I like Mohinder being the non-powered professor on the show. I'd almost call him the 'everyman' except, look at him...

I have that power, it's inheirant in all English people.

In the episode "Five Years Gone" Nathan/Sylar remarks that Mohinder hasn't slept for five years since the bomb.Given the nature of the show he probably meant that literally and not figuratively meaning Mohinder has the power of selfsubtantiation allowing him to continue living without the need for sleep,food,or water just like Reed Richards in the Fantastic Four.

Having abilities is genetic, and his sister had an ability so his chances of having one are no less than 25%. It really depends on how dominant the genes are and whether his parents were heterozygous for the gene (and one or both carriers). Anyway it shouldn't be surprising if he shows an ability eventually.

mohinder's not on the list.

It's his father's list ... Noah had his daughter removed, and either Chandra or his wife should be on it too.

I believe he has a genetic possibility, in that he has the gene since he was able to use his anti-bodies for the cure, but he does not have powers. More that his kids if ever had any could have powers.

I think Mo's mom has an ability. Else how would Shanti be "special"?

If he was so smart (avoiding big words), then why would he be so gullible? =/

He is a guy and can't help, it that just my thought

I don't think Mohinder is THAT gullible. The only person he was really tricked by was Eden.

Everyone likes to snap on him for teaming up with Sylar, but I think that was a reasonable choice: remember, the last "weirdo-seeming" person Mohinder met was Peter Petrelli, and he blew him off too harshly and too quickly. I think no matter how weird "Zane" seemed, Mohinder was determined not to repeat that mistake. Moreover, just because somebody's a little weird, doesn't mean they're Sylar! That's not a logical conclusion to draw. Additionally, it didn't actually take Mohinder that long to figure out his weird friend was Sylar - maybe two days, tops.

Everyone also likes to snap on Mohinder for teaming up with the Company, but he's never wholeheartedly embraced their ideas or their mission: as late as "Truth and Consequences" he was reaming out Bob and going through the Company back records to verify Bennet's allegations about the bioweapons program (he's a scientist, he waits for evidence before he leaps). Just because he's pretending to work for them, doesn't mean he believes everything Bob tells him: it's simply the least bad option Mohinder has.

Random genetics.

Will Mohinder ever have a power?
Not likely. "He's Mr. Science and was conceived to be the one guy in this vortex who does not have special abilities," creator/executive producer Tim Kring says. "We have no plans to change that." That's fine with Sendhil Ramamurthy: "I'd be sorely disappointed if I got a power at this point — it would just be weird. But I wouldn't mind turning out to be the puppet master of this whole thing." By the way, anyone arguing that Mohinder technically does have a power in that his body carries the antibodies to the Shanti virus won't get very far with Kring. "That's still a scientific thing, not a special ability," he insists. "If it were a power, then there'd be a lot of heroes out there in our world."

http://www.tvguide.com/news/heroes-tim-kring/071107-01

No, and that's a good thing.

I prefer Mohinder without a special ability.

It's genetically possible that Mohinder could posess a power of his own...

...but I prefer him the way he is.

If he does have an ability, it's not one that's obvious (e.g. pyrokinesis allows those who have it to manipulate fire), based on recent preview videos and speculation, it could be special oriantation (he can remain balanced even if the area he was in had an earthquake) or more likely somethig that can throw off Darth Sylar - Hyper-immunity, it's an ability that isn't all that noticable, much as IA is with Darth Sylar by itself (at least not according to equipment).

If he does have an ability, it's not one that's obvious (e.g. pyrokinesis allows those who have it to manipulate fire), based on recent preview videos and speculation, it could be special oriantation (he can remain balanced even if the area he was in had an earthquake) or more likely somethig that can throw off Darth Sylar - Hyper-immunity, it's an ability that isn't all that noticable, much as IA is with Darth Sylar by itself (at least not according to equipment).

The whole point of characters like Mohinder, Noah, Ando and other "normal" characters is to demonstrate that having powers is something special, not commonplace. If every major character in the show had powers, one of its main premises would be nullified.

Shanti did not necessarily have a power, nor would have manifested one. For every successful evolutionary step, there are likely millions of mis-steps, some that are fatal. In Shanti's case, she could have been a mis-step - those 4 simple genes that make an evolved person may have been messed up, or incomplete, for instance. Often genetic defects are deadly.

There's not much evidence to conclude that she would have had a power, that either of her parents had/have one, or that Mohinder will ever manifest one.

But, like all things, it's gray enough that if the writers deem it, they could make it so.

I'm with the camp that hopes it never happens.

She was Patient Zero of a virus that kills those with abilities, the same virus that Victoria Pratt experimented on before Strain 138 was almost released. That indicates that she would've developed an ability, but she didn't live long enough for it generate noticable effects.

Actually, according to Chandra, that virus was her ability.

What the B***** Hell are you saying?! You're saying that she was patient zero for the virus because she CREATED IT?! She has Virogenesis?!? an ability that allows her to create a virus that dsiables abilities and then kills them?!? There are some parts of the Matrix Trilogy that make more sense than that.

Whoa.. deep breaths.

I think they left Chandra's statement on Shanti being "special" very vague. "She had a genetic anomaly. My hope is that no one will suffer as she did" definitely made it sound like the "genetic anomaly" was the cause of her suffering - perhaps a congenital birth defect. But Shanti DID have the virus, which in its original form seemed only to affect evolved humans, so there is also strong reason to suspect she had a power of some kind.

So, perhaps Chandra was deliberately being vague when he told Bennet about his daughter? Or perhaps this also falls victim to the general retcon they did with the Suresh family background, like Mohinder's changing age when Shanti died (his mother said Mohinder was 2 when it happened, but Mohinder's later reasoning when he discovered the cure seemed to imply he had not yet been born at the time).

IMHO there's no "bulletproof" explanation for whether Shanti had a power or not.

Chandra said that her ability grew in her like a cancer, and that it's what killed her.

I don't see room for interpretation. The Shanti Virus was her ability.

Synch, nice bit of logic. Kinda staring us in the face all the time.

Given that powers are sort of "restricted" at the start and mature to become something bigger, care to speculate on where Shanti's virus power would evolve to? Surely just killing HEBs was not the idea.

The fact that it killed her causes some problems. Maybe, as with Marvel's Cyclops (childhood head-injury prevents him from turning optic blasts "off"), some injury made her susceptible to her own ability. Given Chandra's...obsession...it's equally possible that something he did to her caused her to fall victim to her own ability.

Regardless, I'd say her ability ultimately would have matured to be reasonably close to Maya's- not in specifics, but in the controllable and reversible nature of it. Possibly all the variants we've seen of it (completely lethal, power-blocking but not lethal, power-blocking and lethal...) would have been part of her ability all along.

Funny, I was thinking of Cyclops too.

Yeah, good explanation. Shanti could have been the equivalent of the Haitian/Maya on a larger scale, neutralizing/killing whole blocks of SGs.